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Kommentar von TerraCotia

If the 30 stacks already listed is not a placeholder number and the tooltips for Necrotic Plague that Bareno linked to remain unchanged, it looks as though you'll have to wait until that DoT kills at least 29 different people before you kill Arthas.It also looks as though most raid members would die to just a few stacks of this (assuming each stack is worth 10k per tick). So if it jumps to a raid member anywhere between 3 and 30 stacks, it will need to be dispelled IMMEDIATELY, which will drop a stack and it will need to kill another NPC to make up the difference.This achievement is going to be a beast.

Kommentar von Herecius

Assuming the tooltip for Necrotic Plague goes unchanged when the new wing opens and Arthas himself is actually live (there is a good chance of it changing), there will most likely be a damage reducing buff of some sort, as we've seen in both the Festergut and Blood Prince encounters.

Kommentar von wowelderscrolls

Purely speculation but...

Now that the encounter is actually live, let's take a look at the mechanics of both the fight and Necrotic Plague:

1. We know that its effect ticks every 5 seconds.

2. It can affect both players and npcs (unknown if it affects The Lich King himself but for hypothetical purposes lets just say it does)

4. If its effect ends via death or the duration running out, it gains a stack and jumps.

5. If it is dispelled, it will lose a stack and jump.

Here is how this achievement might possibly be done:

During his first Necrotic Plague use, if one of the tanks are hit by it then it MUST be dispelled and you must wait for it to be used again. If a dps is hit by it, they MUST use anything to reduce damage every time it ticks and the raid healer MUST be ready for it. It has to gain one stack so that when it jumps, it will be dispellable but still able to jump (instead of being dispelled completely from having no stacks).

When it does stack to 2 and jump, one of two things will happen.

-If it jumps to a player then it's at 2 or more stacks, you MUST dispel, otherwise you will have to either tough it out at a single stack or dispel and wait for him to use it again.

-If it jumps to an add, wait until there's another add and then ALL DPS BURN THE ADD WITH NECROTIC PLAGUE. It will then gain a stack and hopefully jump to another add.

-The ideal time to go for this achievement would either be during phases 1 or 3, since those are the times when he summons the most adds, thus giving more chances to stack the plague. It is of course advised to STOP DPS ON THE LICH KING and focus on bringing Necrotic Plague's stacks up in this way during the phase that you attempt the achievement. (Of course if there is a berserk timer then you must either choose to wipe the attempt or just kill him without the achievement if this will take too long).

Of course, as I write this I am writing this under the assumption that the raid won't have the zonewide buffs that are, to my limited knowledge, not available to players yet (though I could be wrong). This buff that was stated to be put into effect in Icecrown will possibly either trivialize the achievement or be necessary to gain said achievement (there is also the possibility that it will do both).

Kommentar von ajvys

Kommentar von Abyssalhand

Facts#1: Necrotic Plague is only casted by Lich King during P1.#2: Necrotic Plague can jump to either npc or player.#3: Stacking to 30 means it can only be done on 2 tanks after a stack of 20.

A true test forDPS(take down adds as fast as possible to let the tanks have room to breathe)Tank(not only the Necrotic Plague stack is doing huge damage on a tank, Lich King gains enough +dmg to give tanks a big kiss)Healer(well, just stressful. One of the healers in my group is a girl, you'd expect to hear girl's screaming from voice-chat all the night.)

Pretty easy.

Kommentar von Ashvael

The way we've done the achievement is:

Off-tank gets all adds tricked by a rogue without anyone else dealing damage to them.First plague runs out of the raid and gets dispelled somewhere so the first plague disappears. We've found this to be the most effective way as we've lost our stacks before on not having enough ghouls at around 25-28 stacks.

After the first plague, everyone else just runs to the OT just like normal and then basically you wait. You wait pretty long and the only important part in this is to make sure the ghouls get tricked to the OT immediately in the end since it will be fairly close once you get 30 stacks.

After P1 just make sure your DPS are giving everything they got and finish him off. A log of the kill including this achievement can be found here.

Kommentar von belloc

Basically: DPS Lich King to 78% --> all DPS and healers back away from the Lich King, all adds are tanked on LK --> Necrotic plague hits 30 stacks after killing tons of adds --> Pull adds away and kill boss as usual.

Good luck.

Kommentar von LoRDN3o

Its isnt soo hard, just let first plague be dispeled out of raid, dps Lk down to 72% and be carefull with enrages on the adds. We had hunter + rogue on that. Enrage is fine when all ppls stays alive.

GL n HF

Kommentar von Thuuran

Yeah it wasn't so bad, we found even if someone mucked up running out if we let 1 or 2 following go out before resuming dispels near OT we were right, so there's a bit of flexibility.

Managed to get this on my 1st LK kill (4 attempts) as well so I was happy.

Kommentar von Eiras

There's one issue with this achievement my 10 man group ran into tonight. Unfortunately it was the last achievement many of us needed for our frostwyrms.

So if the Necrotic Plauge *SKIPS* 30 (i.e. combines with a second stack) the achievement is not triggered.

I suspect that the code for the achievement trigger is listed for (stacks = 30) rather than (stacks >= 30)

For anyone attempting to do this achievement, beware. It looks as though the stack count must equal 30 in order for the achievement to be triggered. This has been posted on the BUG forums and I've opened up a ticket with Blizzard about it.

Kommentar von fieryneko

Don't be fooled by this achievement like we were! Necrotic Plague gains a stack each time it kills or runs out of time--NOT EVERY TIME IT JUMPS. There is a misleading debuff on the Lich King, where he will gain one stack of Plague Siphon each time Necrotic Plague jumps from one target to the next, and if you're special like I am, you might confuse 30 stacks of Plague Siphon with 30 stacks of Necrotic Plague unless some guy on Wowhead explicitly warns you otherwise.

That being said, the strategy for obtaining this achievement can be done a variety of ways, but the primary thing you need to know is this:

Get the Necrotic Plague onto the adds as late in as possible during phase 1, without pushing the Lich King into phase 2 (meaning, without getting him to 70% or lower). This means you're going to want to dispel Necrotic Plague on the first person it comes out on while they're standing away from the raid (and away from adds), thereby eradicating the first plague. You can treat the rest of the plagues like normal at that point, since the plagues--while they might initially be separate stacks--will eventually jump onto the same add and fuse their stacks. Anyway, what you have to have happen is have the plague jump from add to add (as adds continually spawn during phase 1), and avoid having to dispel it off of friendly players as much as possible, BECAUSE! each dispel removes a stack of Necrotic Plague. Additionally, each dispel will add a jump, thereby increasing the damage the Lich King does through Plague Siphon, so you definitely have motive to avoid that scenario as much as possible.

One last thing--the ranks of Necrotic Plague listed elsewhere on this page for this achievement are WRONG. The rank I listed is the one for 10 man regular and if you're pursuing the 10 man meta and aren't doing it while fighting Lich King Heroic 10, this is the accurate rank. Just my two cents.

Good luck on your drake achievements!

--Gnomaldo of Gnomeregan

Kommentar von Unlocky

Edit: Needless to say, this was done at level 80 when Lich King was endgame. I suppose at level 85 it's pretty trivial since phase 1 was easily pushed with 25m hc gear and Hellscream's WArsong/Strength of Wrynn activated.

We usually have a hunter and rogue with us, but their internet was down so we missed Misdirection and Tricks of the Trade.In order to work around this, I as the retribution paladin, taunted/Divene Stormed the ghouls of Lich King while standing between our OT and MT running back and forth between my spot and Lich King as needed, like this: OT------------ me <--kiting ghouls--> MT (depends on how you position your raid ofc)

Our OT paladin then used, among others, Righteous Defense on me to get the ghouls.It turned out to be a great workaround, we oneshot the achivement, thanks to the 20% zone buff and ICC25HM gear, my dps was not needed at all on LK. Infact we got LK to 72% very fast and our ranged were basicly having a coffee break untill we got 30 stacks.We did not delay the plague, we were able to keep the plague "alive" with me kiting the ghouls to our OT.

Remember, as soon as one you see 30 stacks, the achivement is active and you just proceed to kill Lich King as usual.

Kommentar von morzar

Our Strategy: During phase one, we had our tanks cross Vigilance to reduce the high amount of tank damage as well as allow our add tank to machine-gun taunt the ghouls/shamblers.

We had everyone stack up about 20 yards away from the add tank, which was about 30 yards away from the LK tank. The end result was a pretty tight triangle.

Our first plague was run out about 10-15 yards behind the group. All consecutive plagues were cleansed onto the adds as usual. Our ranged DPS just kept DoTs on King and casually DPS'd him. Make sure to stop DPS at around 72%. A holy paladin+crossing Vig made healing both tanks pretty easy. We also had our Destro lock Shadowfury whenever there were two enraged Shamblers.

Once you see 30 stacks on any of the adds, push the phase and continue on to make a normal Lich King kill. With the ICC buff at 20% enrage won't ever be an issue, we were a whole 2:30 ahead of it despite the long first phase/3 healing.

Have fun and good luck.

Kommentar von Mouy

The stack doesn't disappear when it gets to 30, keeps on ticking.Reason i say that is because it looked like it disappeared when we hit 30 (someone was fast with dispelling)

Now you know!

Edit: It is really recommended that you dispell the first two plagues outside the raid (nothing gets it) if you want this achievement.

Kommentar von karioth

This is simple to get. Here is how:

Raid Comp:This actually does not matter a whole lot. You want a disc priest per normal LK mechanics, but really any normal raid comp will work. Some groups may want a DK Tank for easier add control, however a blocking tank will take less damage and thus require less healing. I highly recommend running a 3 healer comp. Obviously you want a group of people with a decent amount of Lich King experience so you are not dying in later phases after the time investment in phase 1.

Process:1. Stack ranged and healers together in a tight clump. Have the OT tank the adds roughly 20-25 yards away from the raid.2. In our example, the OT was to the left of the raid. The first person with the plague runs to the RIGHT and is dispelled.3. The second plague goes out, this person runs behind the adds being tanked by the OT, is dispelled, and returns.4. Every other plague receiver runs RIGHT to be dispelled away from the adds and raid. You DO NOT want 2 plagues in the adds if possible, it produces a chance of failing the achievement.5. Burn LK down to about 72% then have DPS hard stop.6. The plague continues to bounce after LK is pushed. You want to allow the plague to bounce to 30 less the number of adds you have up then push, maybe giving an extra 1-2 just in case. Normally, you can push LK at about 25-28 stacks depending on how many adds you have up.7. The rest of the fight is exactly as normal.

What this does:- Ensures that you do not merge plagues and accidentally go from 29-31 stacks (you must hit 30 exactly or you will not receive credit).- Simple execution. Your raid members only need to be able to pay attention to DBM (or whatever they are using), count, and discern left from right. If members of your raid struggle with this, odds are you will struggle with basic fight mechanics later on.- Ensures that you will not run out of adds before that plague has stacked high enough.

Your aim is to stack Necrotic Plague to 30 stacks, this has nothing to do with the Plague Siphon debuff on the Lich King. Simply stated, you want to track the debuff that is bouncing around, not the buff on the Lich King.

Kommentar von Overlordzsei

It would appear they fixed the bug with the plagues needing to be exactly at 30. Just did this tonight and it jumped past 30 and we still got credit.

Kommentar von trelliema

So, tried this tonight several times. We kept running out of ghouls to keep the stacks alive once we hit the high 20s......

Kommentar von littleminx

Did this today with guild did all the achieves on hc mode but this one is bugged got lk over 30 stacks nuked killed etc but no achieve so opened a ticket :(

Kommentar von Bobmuffins

I got this today on my Death Knight, the plague was at at least 33 stacks, and seeing the number of adds up it was probably at about 40+ by the time he entered Phase 1.5.

I'm willing to bet the coding for the achievement's been changed to >=30 instead of =30 now.

Also, is there some kinda reference I'm not getting in the name of this achievement?

Kommentar von thebyrus

Knocked this out today with an all 85 group. We didn't dps adds at all and let the OT just pick them all up. Once the plague gets to around 20 stacks, it's killing the adds pretty quick. After 30 stacks, it's gravy.

Kommentar von Organ1

I just got robbed on this about an hour ago, we had over 40 stacks & when we dropped him no one got the achievement .. soooo angry right now =/

Kommentar von Vanquisher

Does anyone know where I can find the best guide for this achievement whether it's a video or just written?

Kommentar von WebDev

Finally got this one and my drake. It's not that easy even at 85 with full DS Gear. As gear does mean anything only how fast u will finish LK actually after the hardest part of the achievement.Done in a pug, spamming trade channel. After about 5-6 fails, we changed tacts a bit. We were always run out of adds and basically loose stacks. Decided to change tacts a bit: we've skipped 1st four necrotic plagues, dispelling it out of group. This achievement really requires much concentration from all members - to track the Necrotic Plague and also its stacks. At lower stacks, pretty hard to find the mob with stacks in all that mess. At high 20+, much easier, as small mobs got one-shotted by this desease and big adds come 2-shotted. The reason our group needed to skip just as much as 1st four plagues is that our add tank was druid, and for gaining enough aggro, needed to do AOE dmg (Swipe,Thrash) sometimes, which eventually kill the small adds fast enough. Also very important thing is really to dispell this from people, as in first tries our dudu healer got one-shotted from 285K hit.Maybe this will help someone.Looks like the hardest one in the Glory of the Icecrown Raider. Good luck!

Kommentar von Firespawn

Did this last night and despite all the inormation above about hitting exactly "30 stacks" of Necrotic Plague, we completed this achievement with 34 stacks and then burned down the ol' LK. Idk why this worked for us and did not work for other groups, but we followed a similar method as stated above. I notified Blizz on behalf of all the folks on here that did not get the achievement in hopes that whatever bug allows some groups to nail it and others not, to be fixed. Good luck all and hope you get it.!

Kommentar von phantom325

Completed this last night, got it on our second try.

-Make sure you have a good tank picking up the adds who picks them up fast. If you have 29 stacks on the mobs, and there's no mob to let it jump to, it'll reset. (that's what ours did)

1) Have MT tanking LK (with the whole raid with him, except OT of course) on the left side (facing the LK) of the stairs.2) Have OT tanking adds on the right side (facing the LK) of the stairs.3) The FIRST person to get the plague runs to the OT, behind the adds, and gets dispelled. 4) Everyone else runs to the CENTER of the platform (away from both the raid and the OT), and is dispelled there, making the plague disappear.5) The one stack in the adds will keep bouncing around. It took us around 4-5 minutes to get it stacked up to 30. It really goes fast once it starts getting to higher numbers and one-shots the mobs.6) Once it stacks to 30, you may kill the adds, whatever you want to do. We just burned him afterwards, and even got Neck Deep in Vile. (We did this on NORMAL mode! Please do not try to do this achievement and Heroic at the same time, unless your raid members are extremely geared and extremely raid aware.)

Kommentar von Sixer

Blizzard still hasn't changed the stack=30 bug. Pfffffffffffff

Kommentar von azrafc

At level 85 there is a way to get this achieve first time, every time, as long as your raid is competent.You will need, a pally or a priest healer and one tank.

You must start the encounter with only the tank doing any damage, he should wait at the center (red) and gather at least 10 adds, (this is to avoid the issue of the adds running out of adds that seems to occur at around 25 stacks).

All this while necrotic plague victims should run away from the group (purple) and only then should they be dispelled. There should be no rush in dispelling one stack necrotic plagues as it only does 50,000 damage.

Once the tank is ready, he should run to purple and pick up the dispelled necrotic plague, once the adds have the debuff he should return to his position and keep picking up the drudge ghouls and shambling horrors, the plague will easily increase to 30 stacks, when that happens, kill him as usual.

Things to remember

Kommentar von shazoki

this is a fairly simple achievement that we five manned in a guild group to cut down on pugs who run around saying "derp dispel meh!". make sure someone can dispel diseases and that you have 2 tanks to make things easier. also a healer of course.

now our strategy was having 4 markers in a square shape almost. we had 1 tank with the LK in the center of the room only have them use white swings if you are doing this achieve on normal. we had our other tank (we used a DK for the DnD) stand where you teleport in at tanking the adds. we had the rest of the raid standing near the pillar to the right of teleporting in. our last marker was the dispel area that people with necrotic plague would run to we had it about 10-15 yards from the raid group and the tank tanking the LK. the first necrotic plague goes to the dispel area and the second goes to the adds. all after that are going to the dispel area. we did this so that we didnt run out of adds because necrotic plague started killing them too quick. make sure to dispel the OT if they get necrotic plague so they don't die.

it takes a while but its worth it. after the plague gets it's 30 stacks. kill all adds and dispel necrotic plagues away from everyone and start burning boss. then its just LK as usual.

Kommentar von Reapar

Just completed this achievement in patch 5.0.5After quite a few attempts and only just missing it by 5 stacks we were able to do it using this strat.MT tanks LK as normal with OT between MT and stacked raid grp. OT picks up adds with one AOE ability while taking care to not damage adds currently on OT. Raid run dispels to a designated spot until OT has 4-5 sets of adds (12-15 drudge's).Once OT has enough adds, one raid member gets dispelled on OT to start the stacks bouncing. Rest of the dispels after that are done as before on the designated location. This ensures that there are not multiple debuffs being bounced. Once 30 stacks has been reached kill boss as per normal.We did this with a DK OT and Pally MT so that DnD could be used to pick up adds without spreading plagues or over killing the adds before the debuff could work its magic.With the CD on dispel we had to communicate on vent so as to ensure everyone could be dispelled. We also did this with the 30% raid buff turned off to ensure the adds didnt die to quick as everyone in raid was in HM DS gear.

Hope this has helped you and GL with this pain in the ass achieve.

Kommentar von nuclear898

Did this last night as follows:1 healer4 dpsmain tank for bossblood dk in dps gear for adds

Got the stack to 32, blood dk died because healer didn't dispel plague fast enough, then healer died from the plague as well, but the rest still managed to do the rest of the fight with ease. After LK died no one got the achievement... Guess they didn't fix that bug where the stack has to be exactly 30 after all. See you next week arthas...

Kommentar von Carjacker13

Here's my strategy for level 90's. You will need 2 tanks, at least 1 healer that can cleanse diseases, and as many DPS as you can get. (My group only had one healer who was also the only person who could cleanse necrotic plague)

You will need to setup four locations, a main-tank location (MT), off-tank location (OT), raid group location (RG), and dispel location (D). I recommend the setup to be like this:

*This being an "L" shape on the Lich King's platform----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In case you don't know how necrotic plague works: It is a disease that is periodically cast on a random raid member throughout the duration of phase 1. If necrotic plague is dispelled or the entity (player or non-player) with necrotic plague dies, necrotic plague will attempt to jump to the closest entity (player or non-player). If there was an entity close enough, they will gain the necrotic plague with an extra stack, otherwise the necrotic plague will have nowhere to go, and it will simply vanish. When the necrotic plague gets enough stacks, it will start doing damage well over anybody's maximum health.

Have nobody DPS the Lich King at all, only have the main-tank gather some initial threat and auto-attack from there. The off-tank should pick up every single add that spawns and attempt to do as little damage to them as possible. All raid members besides the main-tank and off-tank should be grouped at (RG) with all DPS sitting idle and ready to move to (D) to be cleansed.

For the first 2-3 necrotic plagues that go out, have the afflicted raid group member run out to (D), be dispelled there, then run back to (RG). For the 3rd-4th necrotic plague, have the afflicted raid group member run to (OT), be dispelled near the adds, then run back to (RG). This will allow a decent number of adds to spawn before starting the necrotic plague stacks. After a stack of necrotic plague has been started in the add group, have any new necrotic plague be dispelled at (D) like before (this will ensure that only one necrotic plague stack is building up). At this point, raid members capable of cleansing necrotic plague should keep an eye on the off-tank to dispel him in the case that the necrotic plague stack jumps to him. Your off-tank should continue to pick up any adds that spawn until necrotic plague reaches 30 stacks.

Once necrotic plague has reached 30 stacks, have your main-tank pick up any new adds that spawn from this point forward, and have your off-tank and all ranged DPS kill the adds that your off-tank already has all while having everybody remain at (RG) (Melee DPS will continue to do nothing; future stacks of necrotic plague must still be dealt with as usual). Necrotic plague may jump to your off-tank multiple times as the adds are killed, make sure to cleanse him quickly. Once all of your off-tank's adds are dead, your off-tank will be left with the final amount of necrotic plague that WILL kill him if it ticks, simply dispel your off-tank (who should have no adds or players near him) one last time to remove the high stack necrotic plague from the encounter. From here you should have your ranged DPS push the Lich King into phase 2 (you can have your melee DPS join in as well, as long as they continue to deal with new necrotic plague).

From this point you simply fight the Lich King as you normally would. Oh, and make sure you don't do this on heroic mode, as it makes the achievement much harder (or nearly impossible) and this strategy would not work.

Hope this helps

Kommentar von Saltura

Just completed this achievement for the mount. I believe the easiest way is to follow the steps below:

1) Tank Lich King on the right side of the stairs. The rest of the group stack on the tank and DPS LK to around 75%2) An OT tanks the adds on the left side of the stairs. We used a warrior tank for tanking LK and a DK tank for tanking the adds. DK tank was able to get all the adds as soon as they spawn.3) The first person who get Necrotic Plague goes next to OT and gets dispelled and then returns back to the group. This needs to be done only once. People who get the plague later during the fight goes in to the middle and gets dispelled there.4) Keep doing this until the tank or one of the adds gets 30 stacks then DPS LK to the second phase.5) The rest is easy, just kill him.

Kommentar von vexis58

Two-manned this today on a level 90 Blood Death Knight tank (in DPS gear) and Mistweaver Monk healer, approximately ilevel 470 gear. Never been to this raid or read anything about the fights prior to tonight, and wanted to see how far we could get on the achievements for the mount.

Have the tank grab the boss and hold all of his adds near the base of the stairs. The healer can stand in the center area at nearly maximum range just to be safe. The boss will ONLY ever cast fresh stacks of Necrotic Plague on the healer, who stands far enough away so that the existing stacks on the adds will not bounce to her. The tank is only damaging the boss and the adds enough to keep aggro on them so they're nice and grouped at the stairs, and DO NOT damage the boss below 70% or he will transition into phase 2 and the adds will stop spawning.

Necrotic Plague will bounce to a nearby friendly or enemy target when it is dispelled, expires, or kills its target. If it is dispelled, its stack is reduced by 1 (unless of course there is only one stack -- it will bounce as a single stack rather than being destroyed). If it expires or kills its target, the stack increases by 1. It deals 50,000 damage every 5 seconds for 15 seconds for each stack of the debuff that is present. This means that by the time it starts to approach the number of stacks needed for this achievement, it will be dealing over a million damage per tick and will one-shot any player after 5 seconds, even at 90. (There is a possibility that future expansions will give us enough health to survive this, but I'm not expecting it any time soon.)

The first time Necrotic Plague appears, have the healer dispel it right away while standing far from the adds, so that it disappears, or just let it tick while healing through it. It took us four or five attempts to figure this one out, because many times, the plague would kill all of the ghouls before the boss summoned more of them, and then the stacks wouldn't have any more targets to jump to and would disappear entirely as soon as it's dispelled (it can't bounce to the boss himself, and this is good, because otherwise it would deal a ton of damage and we'd trigger the phase transition right away). Giving him more time to summon adds at the start of the fight helps ensure that there are enough of them to last through the end of the phase, even when the plague starts one-shotting the ghouls every 5 seconds.

Each time the stack jumps, the boss gains a +2% stacking damage buff, and he'll be dealing 60% more damage at the very least when you're done, so there's no reason to start stacking the plague again if it falls. Better to just wipe the fight and try again.

On the second Necrotic Plague, the healer runs in to the group of adds, dispels the disease, then runs back to the center of the platform. It is extremely important to watch the tank very very carefully for the rest of the phase. If the plague bounces to the tank, dispel it off immediately or it will deal massive damage and possibly one-shot the tank. If the very first one bounces from the healer to the tank, it's okay to just let it tick because it's still low enough. But once it's in the double digits, you really can't let it tick at all.

For the third Necrotic Plague, and every other one that appears on the healer from this point on, just let it tick and heal through the damage. Due to the new dispel mechanics, dispels have an 8 second cooldown. If the healer dispels the easily-ignored plague off of themselves, and the plague on the adds happens to bounce to the tank soon afterwards, that is going to result in a wipe. Best not to risk it.

Continue watching for plague on the tank and keeping both players healed up, to prevent too much damage from Infest, which is removed when the target is above 90% health.

Keep tab-targeting through the adds to keep track of how many stacks there are, and as soon as it hits 30, have the tank start damaging the boss to bring him down to 70% and trigger the phase 2 transition. The healer can use whatever ranged attacks she has at this point to pick off the weaker ghouls, to reduce their numbers and give fewer targets for the plague to keep bouncing between. Continue to be very careful about dispelling diseases off of the tank during the transition, as there will still be some adds up. It will probably jump to the tank at some point during this transition, and need to be dispelled off in order to get rid of it completely. Make sure the healer continues standing a distance away from the tank until the disease is gone -- you don't want a 35-stack plague jumping from the tank to the healer while her dispel is still on cooldown.

The damage the boss is dealing to the entire platform during this time can easily be ignored, but watch for the Ice Spheres that spawn every few seconds. If they get close enough to their target, they will explode, knocking anyone nearby off of the platform to their death. They have very little health, so a single death coil or jade lightning tick will destroy them. Make sure you stay away from the outer ring of the platform, as he will cause it to fall at the end of this transition and you'd better not be standing on it when that happens (not hard to avoid).

During the second phase, the valkyr will grab the healer (I assume the tank won't ever get grabbed, every time we did it it was the healer) so the DK should be specced into various stuns in order to slow the valkyr enough to kill it before it carries the healer off the edge to her death. This should only happen once during phase 2, as the boss will be taking enough damage to go into the next phase transition soon afterwards, which works the same way as the previous one.

Phase 3 should be quick and easy -- we brought him down to 8% before any of the Vile Spirits even showed up and before he did this whole "transporting us into Frostmourne so we have to help rescue his father" thing I was reading so much about, and ended up getting the Neck-Deep in Vile achievement as well without even trying for it. I saw the Vile Spirits floating around during the RP part of the fight, but with both of us dead, they didn't have anything to attack, and eventually they just died and fell back down to the platform.

Kommentar von zHwK

Just some tips for who is going to do this in MoP at level 90, since dispels have 8 seconds cooldown:

- Before dispelling Necrotic Plague near mobs to stack it, we waited 6 casts of the disease to gather up enough mobs to ensure 30 stacks were possible

- Dps must DO NOTHING and stand more than 20 yards from adds, until 30 stacks are done. You dont want to aggro a stacked mob away from the group

- You can do it with only one tank, just be sure to keep all mobs close because they will aggro the healer

After you get 30 stack, you are done, dps the Lich King, kill orbs at 70% to avoid knockback, you usually are so fast you even skip Valkyrie phase, and thats it, GZ! :)

Kommentar von DarmaniLink

What is the origin of this achievement name? Knowing blizzard, it has to be a reference so something..

Kommentar von Tanfana

This achievement can be done with a demo lock in Dark Apotheosis form as a tank. This ability is granted by Glyph of Demon Hunting. If you throw up the occasional Hand of Gul'dan as adds pop up agro shouldn't be an issue. Even Aura of the Elements generates a decent amount of threat despite not doing any damage by itself. If an add does get away you'll find your Soulshatter has turned into Provocation, allowing you to taunt.

Had a rogue stand around and do nothing until Lich King was down to 70%, just to make the rest of the fight a little easier. Healing priest stood about 25 yds away from both me and the rogue (forming a triangle,) dealing with the dispels.

We waited until there were three sets of adds spawned before we started worrying about letting the plague stacks add up. Took us nearly a dozen tries to figure out that we weren't having enough adds out to keep the stacks bouncing around on them. The more adds you can handle (without doing enough damage to them to kill them yourself) the less likely you are to have the plague jump onto the tank (the demo lock, in this case.) As soon as the stacks hit 30 we killed all the adds and took the Lich King down to 70% (he was usually around 75% by the time we got to 30 from trying to keep up my Demonic Fury to use my damage-absorbing ability that I can't remember the name of) and dealt with the rest of the fight as you normally would - rogue dealing with ghost adds, lock dealing with ice spheres, and having a dead priest cheering us on. (We lost him to a valkyr on our successful attempt - totally my fault because I suck at demo.)

Kommentar von Yadue

So we tried to 3-man it (resto shammy, assa rogue and bm monk), lvl90 all of us. Everything went fine until we reached 20-21 stacks. At that point another necrotic plague has appeared and there were 2 plagues on 2 players, which means I was unable to dispell both cause of the 8 sec cooldown. I've checked this skill of the boss here and on other sites two, but couldn't find any information about a 2nd necrotic plague. Can anyone confirm this? Or was I blind and simply didn't find it? By the way any tipps for the above setup is appreciated :) Thanks in advance.

Kommentar von JCrystal

Soloed this with my Hunter (ilv492). It was included in the video I did for my weekly series, which you can see here. I explain the strategy I used and how you can go about doing it yourself. :)

Kommentar von moonlup

As of today, stacks still must reach EXACTLY 30 to trigger ach (can go higher, as long as 30 at some point).

Kommentar von spacebelongstome

Followed Carjackers strategy and it worked nicely, no fuss at all. Definitely recommend using that strategy for anyone who hasn't done it before.

Kommentar von Thugwaffle

Trio'd this last night brewmaster monk, prot warrior, holy paladin. Brewmaster monk picked up all the adds with dizzying haze as not to damage them. After about 4 of the big adds (shambling horror?) had spawned we then dropped the necrotic plague into the add swarm.

To avoid dropping plague into the adds too early the monk would roll/teleport away from adds if LK put necrotic plague on him then detoxed himself. Prot war tanked LK down to about 78% for easy phase push. After all adds were dead (post 30 stacks) the paladin cleansed monk and fight proceeded as normal.

Kommentar von AnaeyaDMF

FOR PEOPLE WANTING TO DO THIS AT LEVEL 90 AND STRUGGLING!

It took us a lot of tweaking to get this at level 90, but it IS possible! We had a huge issue of having enough adds, even after completely eradicating the first Necrotic Plague - simply, this was due to the accumulated damage our OT was having to do in order to aggro the Adds!

We used two tanks (One Pala, One DK) and one Healer (Priest in our case) and only had a couple of DPS. The way we did it in the end was a variation on a tactic I found on here.

1. Position your Off tank on the left of the platform, about 25 yds from your Main Tank who should tank LK in the centre of the platform.2. Have your DPS and Healer(s) stacked together, another 25 yds away from each of these and mark a 3rd area on the right side of the platform.3. Have the first FOUR people afflicted with Necrotic Plague run to the 3rd Marker (right side of platform) to be dispelled and get rid of the first 4 plagues completely. During this time, your Off Tank can gather up all adds that spawn (DPS should kill Shambling Horrors as per normal).4. The FIFTH person to be afflicted with the Plague should run to the Off Tank to be dispelled. Everyone after that should continue to be dispelled on the right side of the platform.5. Sit back, watch the stacks accumulate without killing any adds (other than Shambling Horrors) and when you hit 30+, nuke down Lich King as per normal :)

I hope this helps people. We were really struggling to get this and wouldn't have managed it if not for tweaking a strategy found on here.

Kommentar von Gontier

Pretty easy to solo this achieve as a holy priest. Necrotic Plague will not target you alone, so it was simple to wait until the second shambler, then pop shadowfiend+fade. As long as the LK wasn't in the middle of summoning ghouls he'd throw out the plague immediately. Get at least 30 stacks (I ended up with 40 and got credit, though that's quite a bit of a damage buff), flip to Chakra:Chastise and push the phase so he loses his damage buff

The rest of the fight was simple, Raging Spirits can silence but they have a hard time hitting level 90s, Val'kyr won't pick you up, you know exactly who's getting Defile, and you don't get sucked into Frostmourne while alone. There's no dps race at all.

Got so into it I panicked when Spirit of Redemption popped up, thought I left an Infest ticking again and screwed it up. :D

Kommentar von ChibiSkittles

Was told last week by a GM that the stacks of the plague have to be exactly 30 to get the achievement. :/ Now reading wowhead and seeing people having 45 makes me want to go punch a kitten T_T adds died at 33 stacks and still no achievement for me.

Kommentar von wager67

So I just recently got this achievement with 3 people

1x Restoration Shaman1x Frost Mage1x Survival Hunter

Note we are all PvP geared and the strategy we developed is based entirely around the healer.

I as the restoration shaman would simply tank the Lich King and his Ghouls and let the plague jump between the ghouls and kill them off while gaining stacks, if the plague jumped to me and killed me I'd pop reincarnation, after that I never received the debuff again. So once the stacks get to 30 I would run as fast as possible and have my two dps nuke the infected mob down first and if a big enough gap was created the plague would fall off and if it was close enough to another ghoul they simply continue to nuke through the ghouls until the plague vanished. We then proceed through the fight as per normal and we win.

Kommentar von Hoshii152

We waited til about 5 spawns of ghouls until we let the plague stack. Ran into a glitch where Tirion didnt spawn, so we were all stuck dead. I was able to release and come bk in. There were still adds left over, killed them fixed the glitch!

Kommentar von weslasquirrel

Just did this with 4 lvl 90's. Me as a 537 moonkin, a 505 Holy Pali a 480-ish lock and a 480-ish ele shaman. As other comments noted, we dispelled the first away from the group and had the second one bounce around the melee, as the holy pali heal-tanked. Worked like a charm, holy pali never went oom and once we hit 30, knocked LK down, and killed him before any phase transition was done. Easy peasy at 90.

Kommentar von limivorous

For some time we were trying to get the stacks onto someone for the transition because we had miss-read the achievement! (This is two people at level 90 doing this)Just in case anyone else is interpreting it the same way we did: you DO NOT need to have the stacks on a player for the transition. So in other words:

Boss > 70% health - You always have the stacks on an add and dispell any time that the plague stacks are on a person

Stacks reach > 30 on an add - DPS boss below 70%

Boss < 70% health - adds die off and no more are spawned. Anyone getting the stacks should be dispelled and the plague will eventually have nowhere to jump to and disappear.

Done.

Kommentar von Swifty

This can work with 7 people. Have your tank take all the mobs onto himself. Have the rest of the team stand a good distance away and try to avoid dps or healing or you will pull aggro. Also you don't need to do this on heroic to get the achievement! Good Luck!

Kommentar von megafierce

Did this tonight dualboxing on a blood DK and fistweaving monk. I also had two DPS warriors and one resto druid on my team.

As my DK, I took all the phase 1 adds off to one side, while one of the warriors off-tanked Arthas to the other side. The druid and my monk stood a distance apart in the center, and the second warrior stood off in a corner while he did his laundry. (No, really.)

I simply had all of the others stand still in their locations until I'd cleansed three or four Plagues on them. On one attempt, my DK was either given an extra infection by Arthas or someone had moved too close (that was before we'd gotten the execution smoothed out) so I tabbed targets until I found the one with the lower stacks of plague, taunted it on my monk, beat it to death, then cleansed myself. At the fourth or fifth plague on the kill, I was lucky enough to have it cast on my monk, so I rolled her to my death knight and cleansed her, then rolled back. I waited on the adds, tabbing through them every time plague jumped from them, as well as cleansing every plague that went out on the party. When I saw one of the adds with a stack of precisely 30, I called DPS time, and the raid jumped onto Arthas. The plague killed off the adds one by one (growing higher than 30 for a time, too) and I basically tabbed out of the DK entirely to be on plague duty.

When Phase 2 started, Val'kyr rushed in and grabbed one warrior and my monk, and we didn't get slows up in time to prevent both of them from dying. The next two Val'kyr took the other warrior and the druid. From there, I was soloing, thankfully immune to Val'kyr dragging.

My DK isn't set up to DPS, and the Lich King went berserk at 14% or so. I was expecting to die instantly but I had a huge buildup of Blood Shield and it took him some time to cut through it as I furiously jabbed at Soul Reaper, Rune Strike, and Death Strike. When it was finally torn down, he knocked me down to 62% in about one second and then started casting Spirits. Looking up at his frame, I saw 2 seconds left on my most recent Soul Reaper, and 11% HP. I let that Soul Reaper tick off, put up one more, used Blood Boil to refresh his diseases, then used my rocket belt and ran up the throne like I had the lord of undeath himself on my heels... (Oh, right). He ticked down to 10% just after coming out of his cast, and we got the achievement.

Kommentar von Tamiller

Completed this last night with:

1 540 assassination rogue1 537 shadow priest1 490 mistweaver monk

I tanked as the rogue. In order to do this without killing everything, I took my weapons off, and used FoK very lightly - only when needed to grab adds as they came up, or if healing aggro pulled them off of me.

The priest's job was to continuously tab-target through the adds to count the stacks of plague. The monk kept me up, and dispelled the plague whenever it landed on a player, with priest as backup dispeller in the event the monk was on CD.

We stood in a triangle so that dispels off players would not land on other players or the adds (except the one time we wanted it to land on the adds).

We let the first 3 plagues get dispelled off without landing on adds, to give the LK time to get plenty of adds out. When the 4th plague went out, whoever it landed on ran to me with the group of adds, and dispelled it off in the middle of the pack. Then back out to triangle formation. Future plagues were just dispelled off without jumping to adds.

When our stacks were at 25, I made sure the next group of adds/shambler came out, FoK'd them to grab them. Then turned my auto-swing off, put on my weapons, and poisoned them. Targeted LK to make sure I was ready to go.

Once the priest counted 30, she and I started dpsing LK. Single target, no AOE, and no cooldowns yet. Priest started heading for edge of platform to not get hit by upcoming AOE.

LK hit 70%, ran to center, and priest and I blew him up with all our cooldowns. I used cloak to prevent getting blasted off of the platform.

We did the normal death-in-the-middle-of-the-encounter, and the RP started. But then, it seemed to get stuck. The LK was just standing there with colorful ribbons coming out of his sword, and nothing was happening. We noticed that a shambler and 2 ghouls were still alive and standing at the edge of the platform, and thought maybe that had bugged it. We all released at the same time, having no idea if we would be able to get back in or not. Fortunately, we were able to. The LK was still standing there with his ribbons of light. We killed the ghouls, and the RP proceeded. We also got the achievement, despite the release/run back. Whew!

Things that failed:

We tried it first with bringing the 3rd plague to the add pack, and found we were running too low on adds by 30 stacks.. the adds were mostly dead and it was jumping to players too much, and killing us.

We tried just all standing together to let the plague jump off us to the adds. It stacked very quickly this way, but also very unpredictably. As others have noted, it has to hit exactly 30 stacks in order to get the achievement. If it jumps from 29 to 31, the achieve will fail. With us all standing together, it would jump too randomly, and the chances of getting an exact 30 were too low. Keeping all the players separate, it stacked nice and evenly, 1 at a time.

The reason we did not AOE after 30 stacks was because if all the adds died before LK hit 70%, then the plague would start jumping between the players and killing us. However, this did lead to the aforementioned bug. If I needed to do it again, I would say single target LK to bring him to 70, as soon as he runs to the center blow up all the adds real quick, THEN blow up LK.

While players of our ilvl can survive the AOE damage at 70% with no problem, the LK will periodically knock you in a random direction if you are standing in it. If you get knocked off the platform, you're done. So it is important for ranged to stand outside of it. If the ranged are strong enough, let them do all the killing (LK goes down really quick at these ilvls). Melee can stay in if they have mitigation (like cloak), or are just willing to take their chances.

Kommentar von Rorinda

Yesterday, I four-manned this with three other 90s. While it is certainly doable by less people, as demonstrated in other comments, we found this to be the easiest method. It only took us two tries and we only failed on the first because someone missed an ice sphere.

We had four players: a druid bear tank (myself), a druid cat DPS who switched between bear and cat form depending upon phase, a holy paladin healer and a retribution paladin DPS. So, one dedicated tank, one switch tank/DPS, one pure DPS and one healer.

The dedicated tank will, upon pulling the Lich King, take him to one side of the stairs, where they will hold aggro throughout the first phase. With a decently geared tank at 90, this should not be a problem. He hits like a kitten. The main tank should require little attention from the healer, who should be focusing mostly on the off-tank. The off-tank will pull ALL of the adds to the other side of the stairs and keep them there, running back now and then to gather the other adds as they spawn. The healer stood in the center of the platform, just close enough to heal and cure the plague when it jumped to the off-tank. The pure DPS had no role in phase one save to stand by the healer in case any adds aggro'd onto him. This was essential for us, as it kept the plague from jumping onto the main tank or healer and potentially causing a wipe.

With this configuration, the goal of phase one is to stack thirty necrotic plagues on the adds. Necrotic plague will jump (and multiply) when it kills a target or gets to the end of its tick, so it's really just a waiting game. Since he had nothing else to do, we had the pure DPS tabbing between the adds and counting the plagues. Do NOT kill the adds. Let them attack the off tank and multiply, as it will decrease the likelihood of a massive stack of plague jumping to the off-tank and killing them. Do not bring the Lich King below 70% health either, as this will trigger phase two and he will cease summoning adds and casting plague.

It should be noted that each plague upon each separate add counts as a separate plague. When they jump together, they will all stack. So if you have five adds up, one with ten plague stacks, one with five, one with seven, one with six and one with two, you have thirty stacks of plague. Kill the adds. When the adds die, all of these stacks will stack on one person (the off-tank as long as no one else is nearby). This will trigger the achievement at the end of the fight. Dispell the plagues immediately. Do not let them tick, as they hurt quite a bit, even at level 90. Make sure the off-tank is away from the other members of the group when it is dispelled, so that the plague cannot jump to another group member.

With the plague bit over, pull Arthas to the center of the platform and fight the rest of the battle there. At about 70%, phase two will pop. The edges of the platform will fall. Keep AWAY from them. If you fall, you'll die and you cannot be battle ressurrected. Your body will be out of LoS. At this point, ice spheres will begin to fall from the sky. Do not let these hit you. It's best if you don't let them hit the ground at all. We had the DPS paladin on the ice spheres for the entirety of phase two, rather than fighting the boss. Two druids, with the off-tank switching back to cat form, were able to burn the Lich King down rather quickly. If you have a ranged DPS, I'd put them on the spheres just to be safe.

At the end of phase two, a valkyr will appear and grab someone. The valkyr will head towards the edge of the platform and, if they get there, throw that person to their death. Some people have said this will always be the healer. That is not the case. The valkyr took our paladin DPS. As previous commentors have two-manned this and noted that the valkyr always took the one of them that was healing, I am assuming, but not certain, that the valkyr will take someone who is not the tank. I could be wrong though. Could be random. Regardless, stunlock the valkyr and bring it down quickly. Everyone should be focused on the valkyr. Even the main tank, if that's what it takes. We managed to save our DPS paladin.

Tank and spank the Lich King through phase three. We took him down before spirits spawned, so don't worry as long as your damage output is decent. Just before the Lich King dies, perhaps about 4-5% health, the black pool that spawns under him will spread over the entire platform. You will all die.

Do not release your spirit.

There will be a moderately long scene between Tirion and Arthas. Menethil will resurrect you at the end. Go back to hitting the Lich King. He won't be able to do anything, so just take him down. Your achievement should trigger. Goodluck!

Kommentar von Peacemoon

This achievement requires a character who can cleanse diseases.

Duod with an 85 Disc Priest and 90 Enhance Shaman.

Disc Priest tanked the Lich King whilst the Shaman grabbed all the adds. With the first 2 Necrotic plagues, the shaman sprinted+body and soul'd away from the adds and the plague was cleansed in an isolated area where it couldn't bounce to any adds.

On the third necrotic plague and onwards, it was allowed to run its course (3 ticks of 50k, easily survivable at 90), and it was only cleansed should the big stack of plague jump to the Shaman. This must be cleansed within 5 seconds, as it would one shot the Shaman with each tick. Allowing the default necrotic plague cast by the Lich King to run its course also keeps the dispel disease ability off cooldown for when it was needed.

Using this technique the plague easily went up to 41 stacks, on which occasion we killed all the adds and killed the Lich King as normal.

Hope this helps!

Kommentar von alfonzzo

Key talents: Schnelligkeit der Wildnis - for kiting between P1 and P2 explained belowYseras Gabe - the heal is enough to keep you up and keep Befallen at bay - critical for getting the Lich King to cast Nekrotische Seuche since he wont cast it if there's only one party member. - for the extra stamina for bigger Ysera's Gift heals

Other notes:Don't wear your legendary cloak because the AoE damage will kill the ghouls. I wore the healer version to keep the extra stamina.

Strategy:Start the fight in bear form but do nothing to generate threat - just stand there while Ysera's Gift keeps you up and infest from sticking.After the 2nd Shambling Horror summon your treants, and he should cast Necrotic Plague immediately after.Once Necrotic Plague is up, begin auto attacking to generate rage and begin adding Rasende Regeneration heals. Mangle for more rage if you need more heals, but be careful of pushing him into P2 too soon.As stated in other comments Entziehende Seuche is not what the achievement tracks, but if all goes well, it will track closely to Necrotic Plague. Once Plague Siphon reaches ~31 stacks, go feral and burn him down to push him to P2

The next trick is getting Necrotic Plague to kill the remaining adds w/o jumping to you. I kited the adds around the outer perimiter until the adds were down and the plague was gone. Finish off the remainder of P2 on the stairs so the orbs don't knock you off the platform.

From there it's just dps. The only thing to remember in P3 is to fight him off the stairs because you need them to be clear of Entweihen for the next orb phase.

Kommentar von Hairband

The question is, to WHAT does this plague need to stack onto? The description quite sucks and is completely hazy and ambiguous.

The answer: the Nectrotic Plague must stack past 30 onto any single member of YOUR PARTY. NOT to the LK and NOT to adds. We did it just having it on one tank and passing phase 1 and getting into phase 2 and 3 and living to the end.

To sum, you get the plague from one of the mobs that show after you engage LK (ghouls or big mobs). The goal is to move the plague around, either by dispelling the plague from a player onto an NPC (stack the tank and have a healer dispel). A dispel costs you one stack. Surviving the plague adds one stack onto whoever it latches onto but it will not be the first person.

If you get a plague, you can just have that player stand on the tank and heal through it... hopefully it transfers onto a mob not onto the tank himself because it may hurt. You need all mobs but not the LK on the tank so it can ideally latch on to as many NPC's as possible, not LK. You might not want it on the LK because it could push his dmg onto phase 2 though this, I am not sure about.

This plague bounces around and it increases in number rather haphazardly, and haphazardly increases the stack and goes around to different NPCs and players, so it's a real pain to babysit. Sometimes you see the number is 13 then it vanishes, so you need more mobs to let it accumulate, you get it to 27 and it vanishes, don't worry. Just be patient and do not push the LK down below 70% where ph. 2 begins or you must wipe.

Better to bounce from tank to NPC to NPC to NPC than onto squishies...so keep the tank separated from the party and have the players run to the tank to get dispels or to get heals.

If you allow the plague debuff to stack to 30 onto anyone in your party, and you survive to kill the LK, the achievement does NOT require you to have to end with the debuff on any NPC. And you don't have to end ph. 1 with the plague on LK either. You merely need to survive the stacking to 30+ on anyone. We were trying to end ph. 1 with the 30 stacks on something but it doesn't matter. You hit 30+ during ph. 1 at any one time on any one player, you win.

Naturally you can dispel the plague when you need to (it can bring a geared 90 down in 3 seconds if you aren't paying attn) but you are not guaranteed to get bounced those stacks back and you might have to restart them at 1. The stacks are really randomly bouncing and appear whenever, do not worry if they disappear and require a long wait to get more NPC's to start the ball rolling. Just be patient.

Make sure that a non-tank gets to where the tank and the bulk of the mobs being tanked are in the time allotted, which is I think 10 seconds. You will see the plague debuff tick off, and then transfer from the first player onto someone, and will increase.

In order to survive the stacks, that means you have to wait a long time to accumulate all the adds you need to grab the plague from, so heal up and do NO DPS. Take off your auras and your dps trinkets (like if you have a trinket that does damage if you are damaged, you need to take that off). Some random people may wipe so be prepared to battle rez or lay on some quick heals.

If you get into Phase 2 without a player hitting 30 or over, you need to wipe. My addon was showing the stacks on the players, that's Healbot with debuffs shown on its setting interface.

The stacks do not have to be presently on you when you go to phase 2. You just need to have had them on you for long enough to get up past 30. Doesn't have to be 30 exactly, it can be 38 or 32, what have you.

I hope this helps get you your mount and get through what I think is one of the most badly worded achievements in recent memory. Rate up if you like this.

Kommentar von Marbash

We did this one at level 90 with 5 people. Druid, Paladin, DK, Hunter and a Warrior. We tried ALOT to figure this one out, even read the top comments on this page many times. We used the Druid to tank/heal, due to that the AoE aggro ability of the DK and the Warrior did too much damage to the adds, so they died too fast. We dispelled the plague 3-4 times (until 4 packs of adds had spawned, and the druid had aggro of them.) The next plague that was casted after that, the one go got infected ran over to the druid and the adds, and got dispelled by the paladin there, so the plague jumped to our tank, which again was dispelled, and then jumped over to the adds and started ticking upwards.

Every plague that was cast after that in the raid, everyone ran out to the side, and waited for the timer to run out, so the paladin could focus on dispelling the druid if the plague jumped over to him. We reached 33 stacks, and then we nuked the Bleech King down until there was nothing left.

NOTE: You will get the achievement AFTER the fight is finished.

- Happy hunting. :)

Kommentar von Galimyth

Alright, I want to help out with an easy, updated and thorough method for completing this achievement. I just 2 manned this the other night in full pvp gear with my wife and after reading a lot of vague, incomplete guides I felt the need to do this in order to ease the confusion. I will also be explaining the simplest method for defeating the Lich King for those of you having trouble with that as well.

Before anything else I will state that it is no longer a requirement to have EXACTLY 30 stacks of Necrotic Plague in order to get the achievement, but you must have AT LEAST 30 stacks now.

First off, there are 3 requirements to make this as easy as possible on you:

1. The WoW addons RaidAchievement and RaidAchievement_Old Modules. Download them at www.curse.com2. Download Deadly Boss Mods and Deadly Boss Mods - Wrath of the Lich King Mods, also at curse.com.3. A character who can dispel Necrotic Plague.

Your roles:

Tank

First off there is no need to move around the stage. Stay right in the middle, facing your teammate and DPS the Lich King to around 75% health while keeping aggro on the mobs. Once he's at 75% face away from him so as not to damage him further, while keeping aggro on the mobs. Try not to kill them, but don't worry too much if some of them die. There is nothing more to it until the RaidAchievement addon notifies you that the criteria for the achievement has been fulfilled. At that point, kill all the mobs BEFORE you resume DPSing the Lich King. If you don't kill them, he will begin phase 2 once he hits 70% health, your stacks of Necrotic Plague may not all stack together, and you will not get the achievement.

Dispeller (I realize this is not a real word, but in consideration of MMORPGS it should be)

All you really have to know for this is 5 things.

1. The initial Necrotic Plague favours the players who are NOT tanking, so you will get it first.2. Dispel the first 3 Necrotic Plagues AWAY from the mobs. Walk to the edge of the stage.3. Don't waste your dispel on single stacks of Necrotic Plague that are cast upon you AFTER the first 3 above dispels.4. Walk INTO the mobs for every dispel cast on yourself after the first 3 dispels.5. Don't forget to dispel your tank.

Deadly Boss Mods will notify you when Necrotic Plague has jumped to one of your teammates, and RaidAchievement will notify you when you have accumulated enough stacks of Necrotic Plague to kill the mobs and down the Lich King. Both addons will notify you with text and an audible warning. That's all there is to the Achievement. Now on to finishing off the Lich King.

Phase 2

This is easy. Very easy. The Lich King will raise Frostmourne to the skies and begin casting an AOE that encompasses the entire stage, HOWEVER, the edge of the stage which is a cliff to certain doom EXTENDS during this phase, giving you a safe place to stand during this phase. Again stay put in one spot and have the tank DPS the adds that spawn. They will look like copies of your characters. Have the other person dps the white orbs that come from the Lich King. When phase 2 is about to end the edge of the stage will crumble and return to its former size. There is a visual warning for this. That is all there is to phase 2.

Phase 3

When phase 3 is about to begin, return to the center of the stage, where the Lich King stands during phase 2. This is crucial, because in phase 3 the Lich King summons Val'kyrs who will pick up a teammate and carry them to the edge of the stage and drop them into the abyss. The person who doesn't get picked up must DPS the Val'kyr as quickly as possible, which is why it's best to tank the Lich King in the center, giving you the furthest possible traveling distance to the edge. That is all there is to phase 3.

The strategies for each phase remain the same. Rinse and repeat.

IMPORTANT: Once you burn down the Lich King to around just under 5% health, he will wipe your entire group, and you will see the "Release Spirit" message pop up. DO NOT RELEASE! This is SUPPOSED to happen. This is the beginning of the last phase, and you will know it has begun when the Lich King begins his speech. If everyone in your party releases you will have to do it all over again. However, as long as one person remains and does not release during this phase it will still count towards the achievements once the Lich King is dead.

Additionally, when this phase begins DO NOT RESURRECT AND ATTEMPT TO BURN HIM DOWN BEFORE HE IS DONE SPEAKING! You absolutely MUST allow the scene to complete so Tirion can resurrect you. In other words, you need to be dead, and REMAIN dead. This means warlocks, shamans etc. need to refrain from using their self rez. If not, there will be no achievements had. Blizzard calls this a "glitch", though I find it is more of a "Well, guess you shouldn'ta done that" kind of situation.

I hope this guide clears up some of the problems many people have been having in completing this achievement.

Kommentar von lostelement

Thought you should all hear the latest from Blizzard.

Don't kill the Lich King during the RP event or no loot will drop, the achievement will not be registered and you will have to redo the full raid again after the weekly lockout expires :-(

I am sorry for the incident with the Lich King. I understand your frustration, and I'll try to provide as many information as possible so you can be better prepared for what has to come.

In your previous ticket you said: "The Lich King was at 1 health point when we were resserected by him we ressed and hit him."

We have verified that if players kill the Lich King while he's still on his roleplay event, this will prevent the encounter from properly ending. That is only possible cause you're now dealing enough damage tu burst him down before he completes his speech. When this glitch takes place, no loot will be generated, and no achievement will be provided.

As for the achievement "I waited a long time for this", sadly there is no tech which allows us to see how many stacks were reached by the necrotic plague once the fight ends.

Since we cannot verify you ever reached the goal we cannot provide you with the achievement. If you don't obtain that achievement by fighting the Lich King, the Game Master team cannot help you.

Please next time you defeat the Lich King, on top of meeting the requirements for "I waited a long time for this" make sure to also let the boss reach the middle of the room and complete his speech, before downing him. This will let the encounter to reach its proper ending and you'll be able to finally acquire the achievement you've been waiting a long time for.

I hope my explanation was detailed enough to let you continue your adventures, but if you need any other question answered just write me back.

Kommentar von gelvis

A quick, TL;DR version of how to do this in MoP.

We did this with 4 people, one person was tanking the Lich King, the other was tanking the adds. We brought Lich King down to 75% health, so when we get 30 stacks we can quickly begin the phase 2 with which starts at 70% health.

You get infected with plague every now and then, for the first 4/5 times, we would run away from everyone (25 yards) and be dispelled (cured) so the plague doesn't appear on anyone, and just gets removed. After we have enough adds so they survive 30 stacks, we started dispelling it on the adds. When they one of them reaches 30 stacks, nuke Lich and you're done.

You need a healer or someone who can dispel disease (like paladin).Plague doesn't go anywhere if the target is dead or dispelled near a different target, it jumps two someone else. The plague hurts you, and more there are stacks, quicker it will kill the target, so the adds will die if you don't have enough of them. And, the stacks on Lich King have nothing to do with this achievement, just to clear that out.

Super easy to be done in MoP, as you can just stand there, while Lich hits the tank, and while the adds hit you, yet receiving little damage.

Kommentar von AgentSnuggles

THIS CAN BE INCREDIBLY SIMPLE. IT TOOK ME AND ONE OTHER PERSON ABOUT 2 MINUTES TO GET 30 STACKS. HERE IS HOW:

Okay, enough with the caps. It was me (90 priest) and my bf (90 pally.) We engaged the lich king and did no further dps whatsoever to boss or adds. Which is good. We let all add's come out. This is so necrotic plague bounces around between THEM not YOUR TEAM. My pally bf cleansed it from himself or I if it did get on us. The necrotic plague simply bounced between the add's until 30 stacks. You MUST have raid achievement filter addon to notify you when there are 30 stacks on an add and you can kill the lich king. Otherwise you will have to keep clicking different add's to see how many stacks it's at when it bounces to next add. We kept the amount of add's at about 9-11 so they didn't become overwhelming or anything.

So this is the break-down:

Have a pally or someone who can cleanse disease off a friendly target with you.

Start fight and don't dps anything. If you get over 10-12 adds, do kill the extra if you need to.

Have cleanser cleanse necrotic plague off raid members ONLY who get the plague.

Wait for it to bounce between add's until 30 stacks and Raid achievement finder notifies you that it has.

Finish off those adds and kill lich king.

Remember not to res when he insta-kills everyone. You will be resurrected shortly after.

Things to note:

It doesn't need to be on you to get achiev. In fact, don't let it be on you at all. just adds.

It doesn't need to be on any one thing in particular when it hits 30 stacks to finish off boss. It can be on any add once it hits 30.

The plague bounced between the add's automatically, on it's own. We didn't do anything. We just stood there and cleansed ourselves and healed. It just bounced around on them until it was at 30 stacks on it's own accord. The more adds that were out the faster it was, but still 10-12 adds was enough to get 30 stacks in just a minute or two.

Just be patient and wait for it to bounce off the adds while cleansing the raid members and there should be no probs.

My pally bf and I got this on our second try when we realized that we can just let it bounce off adds and not us.

Kommentar von Zandrin

My friend and I completed this achievement tonight two-man on 10N WITH NO dispels. After reading a lot of the very detailed and well-thought out strategies here, but not having access to a healer, we decided to figure out our own strategy and a way to do it without ever needing to dispel the debuff.

We did this with my Blood DK and his Hunter, both between 530-540 ilevel, but it could absolutely be done with much lower ilevel. Strategy/setup were very very simple, although there is a bit of RNG involved.

I (DK) tanked The Lich King near the stairs, Hunter buddy stood safely on the other side of the platform and did nothing. To be safe, he also had his pet hold position away from us because we weren't sure if the plague could bounce between him/his pet. We wanted to keep the fight in phase 1, so I did not damage the LK, just used Death Strike on a high-health add as needed to keep my health topped off.The LK should never apply the debuff to the tank - he always cast it on my Hunter. With no targets near the Hunter to spread to, the debuff simply fell off and he healed back up with Spirit Bond. We let this process repeat until the LK had summoned ~35 total adds. Our plan was simply to let enough adds build up that the plague could easily bounce up to 30 stacks among the ghouls while having enough eligible targets that it was unlikely to bounce to the tank more than once. Not iron clad, but it worked for us first try.

Once ~35 adds built up, the Hunter walked close to the pack to spread the disease to one of the ghouls, then backed out to safety again. The plague spread between them, and by the time it hit 30 stacks, we were probably up to ~45-50 adds. With decent gear (I swapped in stam trinkets also to be ~1.02 million health with the 30% ICC buff) a tank should, depending on available cooldowns/self-healing/gear, probably be able to survive an application of the debuff with as many as 10-20 stacks. Any higher than that and the damage is just insane.

As soon as we saw the plague hit 30 stacks on an add, the Hunter joined in, we threw down max AoE to start clearing out the adds and burned The Lich King below 70% to enter phase 2. The plague never even spread to me, though I'm not sure if that was due to a luckily timed Anti-Magic Shield while burning the adds. Either way, if I'd died, Hunter could just finish the fight solo, or any class with a battle res could bring the tank up.

Your mileage may very, but after this, I firmly believe many class combos could 2-man this without any dispels. You may have bad luck and either have the disease bounce to the tank twice (with no available cooldowns the second time) or bounce to him in the 20+ stack range, but with 50+ available targets and only one stack of the disease bouncing around, the odds are pretty good you'll succeed, and the strat is nice and simple.

Hope this helps someone, and please upvote if it works for you!

Kommentar von Stompa

I found the posts here sort of confusing, so I tried to break it down into a simple, non class-specific guide. This post is focused on the achievement, not on the entire fight. I hope this helps some of you out!

You will need:- someone who can dispel or heal diseases (ideally)- someone who can gather the adds together without killing them

What to do:

Pull the Lich King. Keep his health above 70%.

As the Lich King summons mobs, gather them together without killing them. Other players should stand away from this group.

Watch for Nekrotische Seuche to be cast on someone. (A healer add-on may be helpful for this!)the first two times, have that person run away from everyone, then dispel the disease (or let it time out). This allows time for more enemies to be summoned before starting the next step.

the third time, have that person run into the pack of enemy mobs, then dispel the disease (or let it time out). This will get the disease jumping around on the enemies.

Wait and let the Plague jump around in the pack until it builds up to 30 stacks.

Everyone stay out of the pack except the person tanking and gathering them.

ROOKIE WARNINGS:- watch out for Eissphäre in phase 2 - they are easily killed, but they will knock you off the platform if they touch you.- the edges of the platform fall off when phase 3 starts... I learned this one the hard way! Stay away from the edge.- at the end the Lich King kills everyone; this is normal! Also, if you somehow survive this, do not attack him. He needs to finish talking for the event to properly complete.

Useful info:- the addon "RaidAchievement" (with RaidAchievement_Old Modules) is useful for tracking the stacks of Necrotic Plague- the disease will kill mobs quickly as the stack count gets higher; step 3a ensures more mobs are spawned so that you don't run out of jump targets towards the end. If you wait longer, more mobs will spawn and the chance that the disease will jump to the tank is reduced (handy if you don't have a healer).- Nekrotische Seuche increases stack size only when the carrier dies or the timer runs out; healing it LOSES a stack so you want to dispel it as little as possible.- each time this disease jumps it makes the Lich King stronger; if you fail somehow the disease stacks will reset, but the Lich King's buff Entziehende Seuche will NOT reset. It would be best to get this right the first time!- a group without dispel might try Läuterungstrank

I welcome comments on this; my goal is to make an easy-to-understand guide everyone can use and understand. I hope it helps!

Kommentar von clarkeyboy

4) DPS and Healers run to tank and adds when they have the debuff, get dispelled, run back

5) For speed, dispel the first round of the debuff away from the adds, so on the second round, it jumps up quickly (as otherwise it kills the adds too fast)

Since Mists of Pandaria this achievement is now extremely trivial, as gear and stats are way above worrying about damage.

Your tank may get one shotted if not dispelled though, so dispel your tank, and ensure no one is killing the adds until you see 30 or more stacks. The achievement will be completed once you pass 30, you don't need to hit exactly 30, however you won't see it trigger till after the silly RP bit.

Also note, if you have any adds up as he enters the RP phase, it will get stuck, and only someone with Resurrection or a Soulstone mechanic can get back up and fix it (by killing the adds which cause the RP bit to get very stuck), otherwise you have to retry the fight.

Tips:

- You are not looking at the stacking buff on the Lich King. That buff has nothing to do with this achievement! I almost guarantee there will be at least one poopmonkey in your group who insist's that that buff is the one. That person is wrong, and possibly has parents that were related before marriage

- The buff you want is bouncing around the adds, and you want to see that hit 30, again, the one on the Lich King himself is completely unrelated to this achievement

- Don't do any damage at all until you have 30 stacks confirmed, as he enters phase 2 quickly these days (again because of stats and gear)

- Disable pets, spike/thorns damage mechanics, turn off anything that does damage when you are hit, and any pulsing AoE's. This will one shot his adds and fail the achievement

Kommentar von scar78065

What we did after squish on Normal mode.

We had 6 people but should work with 3.

Need 1 hunter, 1 tank(or someone that can taunt), 1 healer.

Group stand in small circle where you first port in. Have hunter's pet tank LK and adds close to stairs. Use distance to keep from pulling aggro. Pet can only use taunt and Thunderstomp(the aoe that generates aggro). Pet will attack LK, and do a small but steady amount of damage, so when the Shambling Horrors spawn make sure the pet is on one of them to minimize damage done to LK. If Shambling Horrors die it's no problem. No need for dps to kill them. You are waiting till about 20(+) adds spawn. Drop plague off in the corner, either dispel or let it fall off. Do not move forward toward the adds. Once enough adds have spawned, start dropping plague on them. If 1-4 adds are pulled let tank taunt as many as possible back to the pet and have the pet use aoe to aggro off tank. Small number of adds in your group can be killed without worry since u will have a large number anyway. If 5 or more adds get pulled back to group then the healer needs to start healing themselves to gain aggro. Healer will then need to stack on pet and just remain on pet to keep the adds stacked up. If healer dies no worries. After 30 stacks burn LK.

Kommentar von Quell71

Did this today, patch 6.0.2 as a holy paladin with a hunter. It was very easy once we figured out the mechanics.

My hunter friend attacked the Lich King and we waited while the LK spawned his adds a few times. As adds die so quickly we didn't worry about aggro and the hunter did no damage to the adds. He only got the LK down to about 78% health. I just sat there in the middle doing nothing. I did not even dispel necrotic plague when I got it.

When a number of adds were up we started the process. We basically judged it good to go when the hunter was at 20%. I then healed him to full. Doing so gave me aggro on all the adds which is what I wanted. I then waited until I got the necrotic plague and dispelled it. Now here is where we ran into trouble a few times. Only dispel the necrotic plague that has 2 or more stacks. When the process is running and necrotic plague is killing the adds, you will still get the newly cast necrotic plague from the Lich King. Don't worry about this as it did absolutely no damage to me. I only dispelled it when I had it AND the stacked necrotic plague needed for the achievement (you can have more than one instance of necrotic plague). Otherwise I let it expire without any issue.

This helped me save my cleanse for when it was really needed. By the time necrotic plague got back to me it was at 43 stacks. I bubbled which got rid of necrotic plague and we burned the LK down in seconds for the achievement.

Hope this helps with anyone attempting this under the new patch.

Kommentar von Negi

Just soloed this post squish as a Frost Mage. My guide and tips are below, first the TL;DR.

TL;DR

Set Elemental to passive, kite LK till 30 creeps are spawned. (Count them manually.) Do not drop below 90% HP.

Set Elemental to assist and let him take aggro of LK. My method of doing this was Blink + Blazing Speed, let LK catch up on his own, then Cone of Cold for its low damage and short range.

Look at LK's buffs, once it reaches 30 stacks, clear adds then nuke him to 10%. DO NOT KILL.

Wait for LK to finish showing his literary skill and finish him.

Now, a more indepth version.

Skills

With my method, you absolutely need Ice Barrier and Blazing Speed in your talents. It just makes surviving Infest and kiting so much easier.

Method and Mechanics

The majority of this fight is going to focus on only Phase 1, which also poses most of (all of) the difficulty in this achievement.

Ring around the rosie

This is the period of time where you need to stack up 30 adds that LK spawns. When I did it, I counted them as he spawned into chat, just so I don't forget. Firstly, set your Elemental onto passive mode. You don't want him drawing agro of creeps and messing up the stacking of creeps. next, when kiting, I went around the four bone pillars, thus forming a rough square. Ice Barrier I used on cooldown, Blink/Blazing Speed I used when he caught up. There was no need to slow the creeps at all - Ice Barrier's CD should come up before it breaks. Above all, make sure you do not drop below 90% HP in this time, or else his infest WILL kill you. Do not damage Lich King as you kite. You'll basically keep running around that square, counting the creeps until 30 are spawned, which brings us to the hardest part - getting the plague to cast on you.

Getting sick is very hard

Lich King has an annoying mechanic (for soloers) in which he will not cast Plague on the target he has agro on. Thus, you need him to switch agro onto your Elemental - this being the reason you don't hit him when you kite. My method of doing this was to Blink + Blazing Speed away as fast as I could, and set my Elemental to Assist mode in this time. LK will catch up before his adds, and I used Cone of Cold on him - its stupidly short range and damage was perfect to get the Elemental to start hitting LK and grab agro quickly. Almost immediately, he should cast Plague on you - at least, it did for me. Now, you want to dismiss your Elemental so that LK will continue chasing you and the creeps won't have funky agro, and avoid a second cast of Plague happening.

Running seriously gets bored after the 7th try

Now, you want to pass your Plague onto an add. To do this, simply stand near an add when the timer on the debuff runs out, and it'll automatically hop over. After this you have to... that's right, keep running round that square again. To track the stacks, instead of spamming tab targetting like you would have to if a second cast of Plague happened, simply look at LK's damage buff. Keep kiting till that hits 30 stacks, after which you need to clear the adds. Everyone probably has their own method, I used Frozen Orb on cooldown, spammed Ice Lance while moving, and when Blink/Blazing Speed was up, I used that to clear some distance and drop some Blizzards. While clearing, hopefully you'll drop LK down to 70% as well, which brings you into Phase 2. If that happens, just clear up the creeps asap.

Finishing off an annoying achievement

In this transition phase, you're going to want to essentially end the encounter. If not, in my experience, the Val'kyrs will carry you to your death, with no hope of survival. Luckily, this is pretty easy at 90. (and obviously 100 when that is released) You can definitely tank Remorseless Winter - Just walk into it and nuke LK down to 10%. MAKE SURE YOU STOP THERE. After that clear the adds. He should go into a long monologue during which I took the opportunity to Alt+Tab into Hearthstone, and when he finally finishes spouting nonsense, kill him off. If you kill him before this monologue occurs, you do not get achievement credit or loot.

After this, all that's left is to wait for next week to steamroll everything on Heroic mode, then fly around on that shiny mount.

Kommentar von Taus

This is mentioned in some of the comments, but I want to comment it on its own, because lots of people who have never seen this fight at all are now soloing this or running it in small groups.

Plague Siphon (the buff on the LK) is not the same as Necrotic Plague. The boss gains a stack of PS every time NP jumps. However, it's possible and very likely that NP will lose stacks as it jumps, or all adds with it die. So LK can show 30 stacks of PS, but you've never gone over 10 stacks of NP.

I believe that in order to see the Necrotic Plague stacks on the adds, you might need to check 'show all buffs/debuffs' in your interface settings.

This achievement is pretty easy if you have a healer buddy and somebody who can tank without damaging. Everybody stacks along with the adds, and just let the thing jump around. My recommendation is to complete this achievement on normal and go back to heroic farming after you've gotten it - much easier to not have to watch for traps.

Kommentar von alpanhell

Here's how I solo'd this on my brewmaster monk.

First, I set my black oxe statue a bit in front of the stairs.

Second, started the event. Waited for LK to attack (he should go right for the statue). Waited for his first batch of adds, then used Jade Lightning to aggro LK only (leaving adds on statue).

From that point on it's just kiting LK around and running by the statue when he summons new adds so the statue will aggro the new adds.

Once the adds get up to about 24 or so, then use Xuen to attack LK. He should immediately throw the necrotic plague on you. Probably best to dismiss Xuen here. Run over by all the adds who are attacking your statue and dispel NP so it jumps to one of the adds. Then just continue kiting LK around until NP stacks to 30+ on the adds. As others have noted it's Necrotic Plague on the adds you need to check for stack count, not the buff on LK.

From this point on it's just normal mechanics.

Just a few things that may cause problems... You don't want to do too much damage to LK since you don't want to push next phase, so it's possible the statue might pull him off of you. If that happens you can pull him back on to yourself or you might want to wait and see if he gives you NP at that point. If there's enough adds up you may just give it to them then instead of using Xuen. Xuen can push him into next phase, so in any case you may want to dismiss him quick if you use him on LK. You're mainly just using Xuen for the taunt.

Kommentar von DrQvist

This achievement can be done solo by a priest, i just did it on my shadowpriest with a tactic that only took 2-3 tries to perfect. Gear is probably irrelevant here, my priest is using ilvl 446 healing gear from normal instances, not being able to dps or heal enough is unlikely to be a problem.

The only thing that is a must for this achievement is speccing into Angelic Feather, since you will have to kite your way through most of phase 1. I would also recommend taking the mind bender talent. Make sure you are at over 90% at all times so you dont have to stop to heal if you get hit by Infest.

1) Start off by dpsing the Lich King down to somewhere around 75-80%, close enough to 70% that you can quickly push him into phase 2 but not so close that your shadow fiend might accidentally push him. Once you've reached that health start using Angelic Feather to kite him and the adds around the platform, a simple kiting technique is to just continuously go around the edges of the four pillars.

2) Count the adds that he spawns, everytime he summons ghouls thats three adds, every shambling horror cast is one add, just have Lich King on focus or targeted at all times and do simple addition whenever you see him summoning more adds.

3) At around 20+ adds is when you want to put the plague into action, summon your Mindbender/Shadow Fiend onto The Lich King and use Fade, it is important that your fiend grabs boss aggro since the plague never gets casted on the target Lich King has aggro on. Once you have the plague on you, let the adds get in range, drop it onto them and then resume kiting around the four pillars. During this kiting you want to bring Lich King as close to 70% as you can and then as soon as you reach your desired number of stacks push him into phase 2.

4) Once you have your stacks 30 or higher, push him into phase 2. This is the roughest part, you have to keep your distance to the adds to make sure the plague does not jump to you. You also have to keep an eye out for the ice orbs that spawn and kill them at range before they get to you. Use whatever spells you can to kill off the remaining adds at range as well as the ice orbs, once they are all dead you can breath out and simply finish the rest of the fight as usual.

As others have said, once you've brought him to 10%, STOP THE DPS and let the RP happen, otherwise you risk not getting the achievement.

Kommentar von hk47

Basically you let your pet tank everything until 4 sets of ghouls have been spawned and then you spread the plague among them. Then you just tab between the adds until you see that Necrotic Plague has stacked 30 times. I did have some issues with my pet's hp dipping below 90% but casting Mend Pet and then Feign Death worked pretty well. Also be sure once you done that part you don't burn the Lich King down to 1hp until after the RP event is done or you might not get this achievement.

Kommentar von Graador

Reposting this I wrote for the 25 man achievement since it should work the same.

As a Hunter (I'm 566 at this time), this is extremely easy to get.

Put your pet on stay and passive, pretty much by LK, and Misdirect some aggro onto it. Then Feign Death a little bit away from them. Remain "dead" until maybe 3 Shambling Horrors are up, or 4 if you want to be safe. Once you have enough adds up, run back up and stack on them until you get Nekrotische Seuche and let it expire off of you. Disengage backwards, Feign Death again, stay down and just tab around until you see 30 stacks on one add. I personally let it go for a bit more just to ensure the achievement ticks it off. Once you have your 30+, nuke LK and there's your achievement.

The damage from both the adds and the LK is extremely minimal for a tenacity pet with Spirit Bond. Nekrotische Seuche doesn't seem to jump to it either so you won't have to worry about that killing it. The same goes for any other debuff LK casts.

Kommentar von abhijitdc

just soloed this today on my guardian druid, brought him him down to 75% and then just waited for adds to spawn. once there were around 30 adds, summoned treant and got the necrotic plague. once it weared of and reached the adds, just kept running around in cat form kiting them using dash and stampeding roar whenever up along with feline swiftness talent. kept kiting them till eventually necrotic plague weared off and didnt pass onto anyone, managed to get 61 stacks of plague siphon on lich king. once that weared off, just killed any remaining adds and resumed dps on boss.

Kommentar von ultimakage

Did this today with no problems. Apparently after the item-squish, this is no real issue. Just have all party members stack on top of the adds and Lich King and let the disease pass to each target. Might be best to have a healer just in case, but we didn't really need one. Filter through enemies and players to see how many stacks the plague is up to and burn after it hits 30.

Side-note: Apparently we don't die from Lich King toward the end of the fight anymore.

Kommentar von gen3ric

If you're thinking about going and grabbing a trinket to give you a pet to solo this, don't.

I spent a few hours farming out the terracotta fragment, but found out that our buddy Arthas here just one shots them at the start of the fight.

Kommentar von Lauriat100811

Did this today solo as a brewmaster monk ilvl 542, LK 10M Normal.

1. Summon black ox statue2. Stand clear and do nothing but watch as LK and his adds focus on the ox.3. When there's maybe not less than 20 adds on the ox, run in and detox necrotic plague then run out.4. Resummon black ox when its health runs low.4. Stand clear again and watch and wait til necrotic plague stacks to 30 .5. Pop defensive CD's and keg smash and spinning crane kick them all down.6. Burst LK to death

Very very easy. Will try it after reset on 25M Normal and see if the same works.

Kommentar von deathgrip1092

Managed to solo this on my ilvl 528 balance druid.

As soon as the fight started I simply let Arthas and the adds hit me until there were a sizable amount of adds. Then I used Naturgewalt on him causing him to temporarily switch targets allowing him to cast it on me. Then it was simply waiting as it bounced from target to target getting stacks, respawning trees to add more plagues that would bounce around and eventually merge. Continue for 30 stacks or until golden brown. Healing through the damage if it bounces to you might be hard but somehow after getting to 30+ stacks i aoed the adds down and somehow it didnt bounce to me. Still got the acheive tho

Kommentar von digitalwanker

Tried this as a ilvl ret pala, but if i just stay still after engaging LK, he only summons three ghouls who keep hitting me for no damage at all. But i didnt get any Necrotic Plague at all through the whole fight! I tried both dps´ing LK and just kiting him around, but still, no plague!

Kommentar von Talboth

I solo'ed this achieve tonight on my elemental shaman. I just popped my earth elemental totem so Arthas would start the plague (he won't cast it it seems if you are alone) and then let it jig-jaw back and forth between me and the adds without damaging the LK at all until it got to 30 stacks on me. It actually got to 35 before I pushed him into phase two and it was definitely ticking HARD and I had to use almost all my mana on healing surge to stay alive along with my stone bulwark totem and healing stream totem. It also helped to put a glyphed flame shock on the occasional add for that heal as well. After I was infected with the 35 stack of it, I simply went into nuke phase and pushed him right to the end easily.

I would not try to solo this unless you are able to summon some kind of pet as I don't believe he will start the plague if you are alone. Also- make darn sure you have some healing abilities, etc. because- as I stated above- even in 6.0 it ticks hard.

Good luck!

Kommentar von TheSpirea

I can confirm it is still possible to do this achievement solo 10 man HC as Priest.

The tactic is actually rather easy. At the beginning don't do any damage to LK, wait till he spawns enough adds (I waited between 3 to 4 minutes), then summon Shadowfiend and use Fade, this way LK will cast Necrotic Plague, now you just kite them around till the debuff reaches 30, now you can kill all remaining adds and finish LK.

Kommentar von Anreno

Also Elemental Shaman - 90 level (491itlv).Some hints form me- use Glyph of Ghostly Speed and Glyph of Flame Shock.Before start change into Ghost Wolf. Glyphed wolf will cause you will be faster than Lich King unless you stop use that form and get hit.Move circular, avoid being hit by Lich King and wait until he spawn 24-28 adds. After that summon Earth Elemental , make him taunt Lich King. When you get Necrotic Plague debuff - use Totemic Recall to get away your elemental. Get close to adds to jump plague from you to adds. Then kite adds nearby using Earthbind Totem. Don't just run far away - I think plague have some range when it jump to another add. From time to time shot Lich King or some add Flame Shock to heal (don't get below 90% health - you can die by Infest). Kite adds and watch Lich King Plague Siphon buff - it should gains stack after Necrotic Plague jump on adds and they die, so after that buff stack 30+ start killing adds in range. Earthquake is very good with chain Lightning and of course Flame Shock to not get below 90% health (use Spiritwalker's Grace or/ and Ascendance to make it faster). Then just kill Lich King but not nuke him to death when he Roleplay in last phase - wait and after that kill him to get your achievement.

Kommentar von SubLemonLime

Solo'd as a Ret Pally ilvl 604:

As stated in previous comments he only applies the Nekrotische Seuche to players that are NOT tanking the Lich King so as a ret pally not having any pets/elementals to call upon I had to use this trinket: Hundepfeife I just noticed it is no longer available but any trinket that spawns a pet that can take aggro should work since you only need it for a small amount of time.

What I did is that I waited about 4-5 minutes during phase 1 so that the Lich Kings spawned in a good number of adds for the plague to get passed around on During this time I made sure not to attack him at all. Once I saw that I had enough adds I popped my trinket Hundepfeife and behold I got the debuff Nekrotische Seuche. I then used Läuterung to remove the debuff and the ads started passing it around. After that I just made sure my health was topped off so that Befallen did not kill me as the stacks on the adds grew. Once I reached 40 stacks of Nekrotische Seuche (I wanted a lil more than 30 just to be sure) I killed the adds as I would normally and then finished the fight.

Kommentar von Valqaen

Okay, After spending nearly 1.5 hours trying to complete this solo as a Combat Rogue, i felt it only fair to post my tactics.

First off, you NEED a aggro companion. Otherwise it cannot be done without a friend. I personally used the "Horseman's Sinester Slicer". See 'Guardian pet' page on wowpedia for others.

tacts:- Same as any other class, let the LK and adds just hit you for a couple of minutes (i waited around 4) or kite them around. They won't do much dmg. Do NO dmg whatsoever to the LK. (turn off Blade Furry, and leech poison or any other AoE)

Once you have a bunch of them, comes the tricky part. The difficuly part is that your companion pet needs to pick out the LK as his target. Most of the times it will choose the mob closest to you, which isn't always LK.

To solve this, run up the stairs and wait for the LK and adds to catch up. There should be NO adds on the platform anymore. Now wait until LK as summoned a new batch of adds. This is important! I'll explain later. After the summon, use Sprint and run to the other side of the platform. LK and adds will follow, but the LK is much faster! However, if you did not let him summon, he might stop halfway and the adds will overtake him. So, again, first summon, then run.

Once you've reached the other side, LK will be close to you, the adds far away. Now summon your guardian and they will attack LK. Provided you did NO dmg, LK will now attack them and whoop! you have the Plague.

Now just wait for the adds to surround you and let the Plague run its course. After you have transferred the Plague, target the LK and kite the mobs around. Watch for the counter in LK debuff bar. Once it reaches 30+, go and kill all the adds with all the AoE back to full and finish the fight with LK as you normally would.

I hope this helps! Keep trying, took me 4 to 5 wipes to get it done but it IS possible, even as a rogue

Kommentar von MissCarnage

Kommentar von Windsurf

Now easily soloable for those who are at least Honored with Frostwolforcs or the Alliance equivalent, have a few hundred gold for Heulen der Frostwölfe (or, again, the equivalent), and have a threat-dropping ability such as Hand der Erlösung. I am assuming you know the fight.

Equip the trinket beforehand. Make sure you have no auto-damaging abilities/talents active like Heiliger Schild.

Start the fight. Do not do any damage. Healing is okay if you're worried about Infest. This step will take a while, so you have time to make a sandwich.

Wait until 20+ adds are spawned. Count them as they spawn. All the unit frames can get a little overwhelming if you don't.

Cast a few low-damage abilites until the trinket procs. Don't auto-attack. Stay in the same phase.

As soon as you notice the guardian spawn, cast your threat-dropping ability. You'll get Necrotic Plague.

Wait again. Eat the sandwich. Necrotic Plague will bounce around. You'll see the Lich King gets a buff stack every time.

Once he has 30+ stacks, this is an indication that Necrotic Plague has jumped targets the appropriate number of times for the achievement. If you're neurotic like me, wait for 35-40 just in case.

Kill kill kill. Achievement will pop, and the cutscene will play.

Kommentar von whitcombj865

You can solo this achievement, I just did it today with my level 99 hunter! Here is how you do it.1. Have you pet gain agro by attacking the Lich King then put him on passive. You don't need to kill anything yet.2. Stay away from your pet letting him take all the damage (I used a Direhorn but any good pet tank should work) and allow the Lich King to spawn undead add ons. Make sure you are counting every new guy spawned, because it gets really confusing when you have ten plus guys attacking your pet. You want a total of 30 guys attacking your pet for this to work. 3. Once you have 30 undead adds attacking your pet wait till you get the necrotic plague, you should have been getting it as you run around avoiding the shadow traps that launch you off the platform. Right before the timer is up for the plague run up to the mob of guys attacking your pet, don't engage them just run past and the plague should jump from you to them. You'll see a green line jump from your character to the mob.4. Run away from the mob and just wait, the plague should start jumping from guy to guy stacking and killing them as it goes. When the stack reaches 30 unload your hunter arsenal on the group and kill them all. Then kill the Lich King and you'll get the achievement. My pet never got the necrotic plague when I did it, let me know if any of you hunters experience anything different.

Lich King casted Necrotic Plague almost immediately for me (Haven't done this on 25 man yet, so not sure if this was a fluke for speed).

From there control adds (no need to kill them on 10man) and just make sure you cleanse/dispel whenever you get NP.

Wait until 30, then nuke Lich King.

I did this as a level 100 Ret Pally, ilvl 640. Was never below 95% health the entire time.

Kommentar von Memoryk

Ok so this is how i did it with my Feral Druid lvl100:

You need to select FORCE OF NATURE talent!

1) Engage Lich King by speaking with Highlord but DO NOT ATTACK HIM2) Wait at least 3-4mins so he cant spawn enough mobs.3) When you are sure the are enough mobs just left click on Lich King to target him and use Force of Nature4) Now you get Necrotic plague - kill one random mob so NecP can start to jump.5) Lich King gains his OWN DEBUFF each time Necrotic Plague jumps - don't confuse it with NP stacks6) If you think that you lost track about Necrotic Plague stacks just cast Force of Nature again and repeat steps 3-47) When u have at least 30 stacks you can nuke Lich King down.

Notes: Lich King own debuff (Plague Siphon) stacks each time Necrotic Plague jumps so when he has like 35-45 stacks it SHOULD be safe to kill him. But I am not sure about this!

Hope this will help!

Kommentar von Spacevessel

Got this achievement today as a solo Blood DK. 10-man normal. Even though I had 31 stacks of NP.Just tab-switched between mobs constantly to keep track of Necrotic Plague.On the 30th stack I aoe'd all mobs (should've done that on 29th stack), and then I myself got infected with the 31st stack of NP, that's when I quickly downed Lich King to the 2nd phase and killed him.Note that I didn't (and couldn't) dispel anything. I summoned my army of the dead in the beginning, they managed to kill some mobs before vanishing - I guess that's what triggered the first NP.

I will also try this next week on 25-man normal solo, but then I think the damage from Lich King's Plague Siphon on me will be too high.

Kommentar von Xizervexius

For a brewmaster monk, this is quite easy to do. I would suggest getting the "raidachievement" addon for this, as it informs you when you reach the required 30 stacks. I had failed this multiple times on different characters as I was looking at the plague siphon stacks on Lich King. While this is a good indicator, it is not what you are counting on.

Anyways, I started the encounter and dropped my ox statue at the bottom of the stairs, and then went and stood some distance away behind one of the pillars. Far enough away so that when I detoxed the necrotic plague it wouldn't jump to anything yet, but close enough I could roll up quickly when needed.I simply just stood there until there were 4 shambling horrors and countless ghouls up, and then rolled up and detoxed the plague off of me onto them, and then rolled back to my original position while the stacks ticked away on them.I would have to periodically refresh my statue, and if they agro'd me I just cast Leer of the Ox and attract them back to the statue..After awhile (I didn't time it), the addon finally announced that there were 30 stacks and to dps LK down (note; there is no visible counter, it just pops up on the screen when ready).Once the LK goes into his RP phase, just wait it out. I thought I had bugged the encounter as he wouldn't stop casting on me, and Tirion had not yet escaped from his ice. I finally realized that there was still one shambling horror up that was quietly flailing away on my ox statue behind me. Once he was dead the encounter finished correctly and I finally have that cool dragon mount!

Kommentar von Claudi0

I did this today on my Brewmaster Monk in the 10-man version and I have some clarification that doesn't seem to be noted anywhere else. The reason why you cannot simply count the Lich King's stacks up to 30 is because he gains an additional stack every time he casts Necrotic Plague, period. If there is no Plague bouncing between the adds, the stack will simply fall off between casts, but as soon as you drop your DoT into the group of adds, it will keep rising while also adding every stack he gains from brand new casts. On the 10-man version, he targets you with a new Necrotic Plague 15 times before the DoT you dropped in the add group bounces to 30 stacks.

This means that, as long as you only drop one Necrotic Plague in the add group, you have to wait until 46 stacks of the Lich King's buff before the achievement's requirements will be fulfilled and you can continue to Phase 2.

I haven't tested this in 25-man, but given that his buff doesn't fall off for 30 seconds, I can't imagine that number would change.